Mutzschen Servite Monastery

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Mutzschen town church. Former church of the Servite monastery in Mutzschen

The Servitenkloster Mutzschen was a branch of the mendicant order of the Servites (Ordo Servorum Mariae, popularly also called Marienknechte , order abbreviation: OSM) in Mutzschen , a district of the city of Grimma in the district of Leipzig (Saxony). It was founded in 1490 and dissolved around / before 1530.

Ship of the town church, looking east

location

Mutzschen is about 14 km east of Grimma and about 17 km west of Oschatz . The small town was incorporated into the city of Grimma on January 1, 2012 and has been a district of the city of Grimma since then. The convent buildings were north of the church. The Dehio assumes that possibly even the cantor's house was a former monastery building. The building is, however, from the Baroque period, but an older predecessor building in the same place cannot be ruled out.

history

In the description of the Servite monastery by Antonio Alabanti from 1486 the monastery is not yet included. In the south transept chapel of the Mutzschen town church there is an inscription stone embedded in the wall:

Inscription stone in the southern side chapel of the town church of Mutzschen with text on the foundation of the Mutzschen monastery by Heinrich von Starschedel

after | cristi | birth | thousand | virhunt

and | in | the | XC | iar. ha. i Heinrich

by starschedel ritter dis kloter

started u spent

after cristi's birth throws

virhndert v in de (... missing)

Floor plan of the Mutzschen town church (from Gurlit, 1897)

Accordingly, the monastery was founded in 1490 by Heinrich von Starschedel. In March 1476 he set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with Duke Albrecht of Saxony , and in December of the same year he happily arrived in Dresden.

The choir, separated from the ship by a wall, view to the east

There is no reason to doubt the above founding date given in the inscription, as some authors seem to have done. The date 1496 for the founding of the convent is also found (e.g. Karl von Weber). The monastery database also gives the founding period 1486/1491 , but without a detailed source. Schiffner writes that one v. Starschedel built the monastery between 1490 and 1496. This would be possible due to the missing date in the last line.

The choir, separated from the nave by a wall, view to the west of the partition wall

The peculiar building structure of the church could be traced back to the fact that the choir, which adjoins the original east tower to the east, was built for the convent. The new monastery received the income of the parishes of Wermsdorf and Fremdiswalde in 1522 . According to Schiffner, the monastery is said to have been intended for 26 Servites. According to Bergsträßer, Heinrich von Starschedel founded the monastery in 1490 with 16 fratres.

The sources are largely silent about the end of the monastery and what became of the properties (or have not yet been evaluated). Around 1530 the Pirnaische Mönch (= Johannes Lindner ) writes that the monks had converted to the Protestant faith ( Moczschen ... Marienknechte ... who inseminated the people alldo vastly drove the Martinian sect ). However, this does not have to be the time of the dissolution of the monastery. The monastery database Germania Sacra indicates the period of the dissolution of the monastery between 1530 and 1539. On the other hand, Emil Kießling mentions the year 1529 quite precisely, as the year the monastery was dissolved. However, it is not stated where the information comes from. Karl Suso Frank gives the period of existence of the Mutzschen monastery as 1491 to 1530.

Priorities

  • 1517, 1521 Jakob Klappe, Prior. He had already become pastor in Fremdiswalde before 1529, and in 1536 he was pastor in Niederebersbach .

building

The monastery church burned down in 1683 and was rebuilt .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wilhelm Bergstrasse: The royal Saxon penal institutions with regard to the American penitentiary systems. In particular the prisons in Hubertusburg, along with a history of this castle and a description of its other institutions. Verlag von Leopold Voss, Leipzig 1844, online at Google Books , p. 2, footnote 2.
  2. ↑ Barbara Bechter, Wiebke Fastenrath, Heinrich Magirius (arr.): Georg Dehio Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Saxony II administrative districts Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich & Berlin, 1998 ISBN 3-422-03048-4
  3. ↑ a b Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 19. Issue Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma. CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1897, p. 180/81, online at Sächsische Landesbibliothek - State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) .
  4. ^ Hermann Gustav Hasse: History of the Saxon monasteries in the Mark Meissen and Upper Lusatia. Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1888, p. 199.
  5. ^ A b Karl von Weber : Notes on the income of the monasteries in Saxony. Archive for Saxon History, New Series, 1: 76–92, Leipzig, 1875, online at Google Books , p. 76.
  6. ↑ a b "Servitenkloster Mutzschen (Motzschen)" (GSN: 6007), in: Germania Sacra (accessed on November 30, 2017).
  7. ^ A b Albert Schiffner: Description of Saxony and the Ernestine, Reuss and Schwarzburg lands. 800 p., With a supplement, published by HH Grimm, Leipzig 1845, online at Google Books , p. 224.
  8. ^ Gregor Maria Zinkl: The Servite monasteries in Germany before the Reformation. Der Katholik, Journal for Catholic Science and Church Life, 4th episode, 10 (8): 86–101, Mainz 1912, PDF (hereinafter abbreviated to Zinkl, Servitenkloster with corresponding page number).
  9. ^ Johann Burchard Mencke: Scriptores rerum germanicarum, praecipue saxonicarum. Tomus II. Johannes Christian Martini, Leipzig, 1728, online at Google Books , p. 1585/86.
  10. ^ A b Emil Kießling: Ramming's handbook of church statistics for the Kingdom of Saxony. New episode. 10th edition. Printed and published by the Rammingschen Buchdruckerei, Dresden 1875, online at Google Books , pp. 87/88.
  11. ^ Karl Suso Frank: Servites. In: Jürgensmeier, Friedhelm; Schwerdtfeger, Regina Elisabeth (ed.): Orders and monasteries in the age of Reformation and Catholic reform 1500–1700, vol. 1. (Catholic life and church reform in the age of religious schism 65) , Münster 2005, pp. 161–172.
  12. ↑ Heinz Scheible (ed.), Corinna Schneider: Melanchthons correspondence. Critical and annotated complete edition. Volume 12 people FK. 479 p., Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2005 ISBN 3-7728-2258-4 , online at Google Books , p. 421.
  13. ↑ Günther Wartenberg: State rule and Reformation: Moritz von Sachsen and the Albertine church policy until 1546. 319 p., Gütersloher Verl.-Haus Mohn, Gütersloh 1988 ISBN 978-3-579-01681-8 (at the same time (sources and research on the history of the Reformation, volume 55)), online at Google Books .

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 38 "  N , 12 ° 53 ′ 14"  E